"Taylor recommended Nilsson for the ""Midnight Cowboy"" soundtrack to director John Schlesinger, Schlesinger selected ""Everybody's Talkin, preferring the cover to the song Nilsson proposed, ""I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City"". The song was used as the theme song for the movie and became closely identified with it; Nilsson's cover is also known as ""Everybody's Talkin' (Theme from ""Midnight Cowboy"")"". William J. Mann, in his biography of Schlesinger, noted that ""one cannot imagine ""Midnight Cowboy"" now without 'Everybody's Talkin'"". Described in ""The Rock Snob*s Dictionary"" as an ""anti-urban plaint"", ""Everybody's Talkin depicts the introverted speaker's inability to"
"Tony Bennett, Luna, Bill Withers, Madeleine Peyroux, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Nimoy, Julio Iglesias, Lena Horne, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Beautiful South and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Nilsson's version was sampled in 2002 by Paul Oakenfold on ""Starry Eyed Surprise"" and in 2004 by the Go! Team on ""Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone"". Everybody's Talkin' ""Everybody's Talkin'"" is a song written and recorded by singer-songwriter Fred Neil in 1966. A version of the song performed by Harry Nilsson became a hit in 1969, reaching No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and winning a Grammy Award after"
"Fred Neil (album) Fred Neil is the second album from Fred Neil, a pioneer folk rock musician. The album has a more laid-back sound than his debut, and contains his best-known songs; ""Everybody's Talkin' "" and ""The Dolphins"". It was re-released in 1969 under the title <nowiki>Everybody's Talkin'</nowiki> in response to the international success of the soundtrack of the movie ""Midnight Cowboy"", which made a hit of the new title track for Harry Nilsson. Music journalist Richie Unterberger characterizes the album as Neil's ""best"", and it was listed in the first (2005) edition of the book ""1001 Albums You Must"
"1969 (film) 1969 is a 1988 drama film written and directed by Ernest Thompson and starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, and Winona Ryder. The original music score is composed by Michael Small. The film deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting social tensions between those who support and oppose the war in small-town America. The boys, Ralph and Scott, hitchhike home from college, arriving on Easter morning and shout their greetings across the glen to their family during a lakeside Easter Sunrise service, much to the amusement of Ralph's younger sister, Beth, and mother, Ev, and embarrassment of"
"Cowboy"" and the 1989 Only Fools and Horses Christmas special The Jolly Boys' Outing has become iconic. In 2004, the song was listed by the American Film Institute as #20 in its ""top 100 movie songs"" for the first 100 years of film. Harry Dean Stanton described ""Everybody's Talkin'"" as ""a heroin song"" which he claimed was ""inspired by Luke Askew, an actor."" Since Nilsson's version of the song achieved chart success, the song has been covered by many other artists—almost 100 as of 2006. The more notable artists include Stevie Wonder, Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, Liza Minnelli,"
"millon budget. The film's soundtrack consists of original period rock. However, it also includes a notable re-recording of The Youngbloods' classic hit ""Get Together"", performed as a solo by Youngbloods lead singer, Jesse Colin Young. 1969 (film) 1969 is a 1988 drama film written and directed by Ernest Thompson and starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, and Winona Ryder. The original music score is composed by Michael Small. The film deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting social tensions between those who support and oppose the war in small-town America. The boys, Ralph and Scott, hitchhike home from college,"
"for 1969. The film starred All the songs were written by Robert and Richard Sherman and the music was arranged by Doug Goodwin. The film was sponsored by Evans-Black Carpets. Songs and selected dialogue clips were included in the soundtrack album along with narration by famed voice-over actor Paul Winchell. Ralph Harding writing in ""The Crosby Collector"" described the LP as: ""The record album is a two-sleeved effort and extremely attractive with the whole of the centre, a fold of approximately 12.75"" by 25"" taken up with no less than 18 beautifully coloured shots from the color TV production."" The"
"its one cover song, Fred Neil's ""Everybody's Talkin. It was released as a single in North America in 1968, and reached the top forty in Canada—but initially flopped in the US. However, the song was subsequently selected for use in the Oscar-winning film ""Midnight Cowboy"" and became one of Nilsson's biggest hits as a performer, hitting the US top ten in 1969. Another song, ""Little Cowboy"", later featured in ""The Courtship of Eddie's Father"", was written by Nilsson's mother. The original opening number for ""Aerial Ballet"" was ""Daddy's Song"", but this track was removed (apparently without Nilsson's awareness) after the"
"Louis Armstrong, Andrew Bird, Coco Briaval, Elkie Brooks, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Matt Forbes, The Hot Sardines, Susan Maughan, The McGuire Sisters, the Original Dixieland Jass Band, Sue Raney, Serena Ryder, Sidney Bechet , and recently by Erica Lewis with the band Tuba Skinny. ""Some of These Days"" made the first of many movie soundtrack appearances in ""Lights of New York"" (1928), the first ""all talking"" motion picture, being one of several songs played by the house band of the nightclub where the film is set. Sophie Tucker herself sang ""Some of These Days"""
"Hear Before You Die"", edited by Robert Dimery. All tracks composed by Fred Neil, except where noted Fred Neil (album) Fred Neil is the second album from Fred Neil, a pioneer folk rock musician. The album has a more laid-back sound than his debut, and contains his best-known songs; ""Everybody's Talkin' "" and ""The Dolphins"". It was re-released in 1969 under the title <nowiki>Everybody's Talkin'</nowiki> in response to the international success of the soundtrack of the movie ""Midnight Cowboy"", which made a hit of the new title track for Harry Nilsson. Music journalist Richie Unterberger characterizes the album as Neil's"
"Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Is Everybody Happy? (1929) is an American Pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for ""St. Louis Blues"" by W. C. Handy and ""Tiger Rag"". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase ""Is everybody happy?"" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone"
"The girl who drove up in the van at the end of the movie is in the same van the band drove up to the cabin in. Everybody Talks ""Everybody Talks"" is the lead single from the second studio album, ""Picture Show"", by American rock band Neon Trees. It was released on December 20, 2011, in the United States as a digital download on iTunes. It soon became a sleeper hit. The song made it to No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, making this song their highest charting single to date as well as their first Top 10 hit."
"His most commercially successful albums, ""Nilsson Schmilsson"" (1971) and ""Son of Schmilsson"" (1972), bore the international top 10 singles ""Without You"" (1971) and ""Coconut"" (1972). His other top 10 hit, ""Everybody's Talkin'"" (1968), was a prominent song in the 1969 film ""Midnight Cowboy"". A version of Nilsson's ""One"", released by Three Dog Night in 1969, also reached the U.S. top 10. During a 1968 press conference, the Beatles were asked what their favorite American group was and answered ""Nilsson"". He soon formed close friendships with the band's John Lennon and Ringo Starr. In the 1970s, Nilsson and Lennon were members"
"the expressions on their faces, when Joley spoke to them ... you'd have thought they were listening to the voice of God.'"" ""Everybody was mad for the talkies,"" said movie star Gregory Peck in a ""Newsweek"" interview. ""I remember 'The Jazz Singer,' when Al Jolson just burst into song, and there was a little bit of dialogue. And when he came out with 'Mammy,' and went down on his knees to his Mammy, it was just dynamite."" This opinion is shared by Mast and Kawin: With Warner Bros. Al Jolson made his first ""all-talking"" picture, ""The Singing Fool"" (1928), the"
"the score, won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Theme. Fred Neil's song ""Everybody's Talkin'"" won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male for Harry Nilsson. Schlesinger chose the song as its theme, and the song underscores the first act. Other songs considered for the theme included Nilsson's own ""I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City"" and Randy Newman's ""Cowboy"". Bob Dylan wrote ""Lay Lady Lay"" to serve as the theme song, but did not finish it in time. The movie's main theme, ""Midnight Cowboy"", featured harmonica by Toots Thielemans, but on its album version it"
"Everybody Talks ""Everybody Talks"" is the lead single from the second studio album, ""Picture Show"", by American rock band Neon Trees. It was released on December 20, 2011, in the United States as a digital download on iTunes. It soon became a sleeper hit. The song made it to No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, making this song their highest charting single to date as well as their first Top 10 hit. The song was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen, engineered and mixed by Billy Bush, and mastered by Joe LaPorta. As of October 2012, the song has sold over"
"Neil gained public recognition in 1969, when Nilsson's recording of ""Everybody's Talkin'"" was featured in the film ""Midnight Cowboy""; the song became a hit and won a Grammy Award. He was one of the pioneers of the folk rock and singer-songwriter musical genres, his most prominent musical descendants being Tim Buckley, Stephen Stills, David Crosby and Joni Mitchell. His most frequently cited disciples are Karen Dalton, Tim Hardin, Dino Valenti, Vince Martin, Peter Stampfel of the avant-folk ensemble the Holy Modal Rounders, John Sebastian (the Lovin' Spoonful), Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, Barry McGuire, and Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane). Some"
"film is now always shown silent, in which form it remains one of the great classics of the screen. By late 1929, virtually all films in production in the US were ""100 percent all talking"", although there were rare but sometimes notable and successful exceptions. Charlie Chaplin's ""Modern Times"", released in 1936, is an example of an unusually late part-talkie. The only voices heard in the film are those of the factory foreman, of a salesman making his pitch by means of a phonograph record, and of Chaplin when he sings a gibberish song in a nightclub sequence. The soundtrack"
"theatrical successes like ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Sweet Charity"", ""Cabaret"", and ""Canterbury Tales"". Arlon was sought out by CBS and at age 23 was made managing director and senior vice-president of the newly formed April/Blackwood Music. It was 1968 and in the following years the company were involved with Gilbert O'Sullivan, James Taylor, Nicky Chinn (of ChinnyChap), Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni, Billy Vera, and bands Blood Sweat and Tears, and Chicago. The company acquired major copyrights of ""Everybody's Talking"" (Midnight Cowboy), ""Hey Joe"" by Jimi Hendrix, and ""Think"" by Aretha Franklin. Film score credits included ""Scrooge"" and the award winning"
"Everybody Sing (film) Everybody Sing is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Allan Jones, Judy Garland, and Fanny Brice, and featuring Reginald Owen and Billie Burke. The film was a significant step in Garland's career. Young Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) has trouble fitting in at school, causing trouble by introducing her jazzy style into music class and being expelled as a result. Returning home to her dysfunctional and financially challenged family, where her playwright father, actress mother, and beautiful elder sister, Sylvia (Lynne Carver) compete for attention along with the funny Russian maid, Olga (Fanny Brice) and the hunky"
"Everybody's Talkin' (Tedeschi Trucks Band album) Everybody's Talkin' is the second album and the first live album by the 11-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band and was released in 2012 by Sony Masterworks. It's been released as a 2-CD set as well as a three disc vinyl set. The title comes from the song carrying the same name, formerly a hit for Harry Nilsson. The band's cover is a hybrid of the Nilsson and Bill Withers versions. The songs on the album are a compilation of recordings from the following three nights In an interview with ""Rolling Stone"" magazine, Trucks stated many"
"version of the song was recorded on June 18, 1969, and is performed at a quicker tempo than the soundtrack version. The song was also lengthened by producer Terry Melcher by editing a copy of the first verse onto the end of the second, effectively creating a third verse. In addition, Melcher added an orchestral overdub to the track in an attempt to emulate recent hit singles like Glen Campbell's ""Gentle on My Mind"" and Harry Nilsson's ""Everybody's Talkin'"". As recording sessions for the Byrds' eighth studio album continued, interest in the band mounted as a result of their involvement"
"with music by Schifrin. There is also a casual rendition of the music in the background near the middle of the film. The Mike Curb Congregation's recording of ""Burning Bridges"" reached #34 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart on March 6, 1971; but did much better in South Africa, where it was the #1 song on the charts for five weeks ending in November 1970, and in New Zealand, where it spent two weeks at #1 in March 1971. In Canada, the song reached #23 in March 1971. The soundtrack to the film also contains the song, ""All for"
"Vaughan and Johnny Wesley and the soundtrack album was released on the Bell label in 1969. The Vinyl Factory said ""The music Jones supplied for this trippy film is Quincy’s nod to psychedelia and sunshine pop – covering the Monkees’ ‘I’m a Believer’, and ‘I Wonder What She’s Doin’ Tonight', which was penned by Boyce and Hart, also of Monkees fame. Sarah Vaughan adds some gravity with ‘The Time for Love Is Anytime’, and there's even a groovy version of ‘To Sir, With Love’. A sweet cocktail."". All compositions by Cynthia Weil and Quincy Jones except where noted The film"
"The Whole Town's Talking The Whole Town's Talking (released in the UK as Passport to Fame) is a 1935 American comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a law-abiding man who bears a striking resemblance to a killer, with Jean Arthur as his love interest. It was directed by John Ford from a screenplay by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin based on a story by W.R. Burnett originally published in Collier's in August 1932. Burnett was also the author of the source material for Robinson's screen break-through, ""Little Caesar"". The film ""The Whole Town's Talking"" (1926) has no story connection"
"Fred Neil Frederick Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material – particularly ""Everybody's Talkin'"", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after it was used in the film ""Midnight Cowboy"" in 1969. Though highly regarded by contemporary folk singers, he was reluctant to tour and spent much of the last 30 years of his life assisting with the preservation of dolphins. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in"
"clerk against the anarchic gangster."" The Whole Town's Talking The Whole Town's Talking (released in the UK as Passport to Fame) is a 1935 American comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a law-abiding man who bears a striking resemblance to a killer, with Jean Arthur as his love interest. It was directed by John Ford from a screenplay by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin based on a story by W.R. Burnett originally published in Collier's in August 1932. Burnett was also the author of the source material for Robinson's screen break-through, ""Little Caesar"". The film ""The Whole Town's Talking"""
"Everybody's Talking (album) Everybody's Talking: The Houston Tapes, Volume 1 is a live album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music). The group consisted of the line up of Bob Shane, George Grove, and Nick Reynolds. Reynolds had left the group in 1967 and returned in 1988. Allmusic critic Zac Johnson was critical of the album, writing the live performance ""seems clumsy and a little disturbing... and the various jokes about gays and masturbation seem awfully creepy from these guys... and while their humor on their original LPs seems bright and"
"Everyone Says I Love You Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 American musical comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also stars alongside Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne and Natalie Portman. Set in New York City, Venice and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing. ""Everyone Says I Love You"" did not do well commercially, but is among the more critically successful of Allen's later films, with ""Chicago Sun-Times"" critic Roger Ebert even ranking it as one of Allen's"
"was followed by international appearances by Nilsson to perform it. Although Nilsson himself denied that the song made him successful, ""1001 Songs"" indicates that the hit ""made Nilsson a superstar,"" exposing him to a much broader fan base and altering his reputation from solely that of a songwriter to a singer. After Nilsson's death, ""Billboard"" noted that Nilsson remained popularly remembered for his covers of ""Everybody's Talkin and ""Without You"". Neil, too, is largely remembered for this song. But although Neil's second album was re-released in 1969 under the title ""Everybody's Talkin""<nowiki>'</nowiki> in order to capitalize on the success of"
"front of adoring crowds and began to establish the audience rapport that would, in time, make her one the world's greatest live entertainers. The reviewer for ""Film Weekly"" wrote that Garland's singing put the film into the ""excellent"" class, and that ""Anyone who stands up to Miss Brice at her own comedy game is very good indeed."" According to MGM's records the film earned $655,000 in the US and Canada and $348,000 elsewhere, resulting in an overall loss of $174,000. Everybody Sing (film) Everybody Sing is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Allan Jones, Judy Garland, and Fanny Brice,"
"stars avoided making the transition as long as possible, especially MGM, which was the last studio to switch over to sound. ""The Hollywood Revue of 1929"" was one of the studio's first all-talking films, and their first attempt to showcase their stars' ability to make the transition from silent to sound. Crawford was among the dozen or more MGM stars included in the movie; she sang the song ""Got a Feeling for You"" during the film's first act. Crawford made a successful transition to talkies. Her first starring role in an all-talking feature-length film was in ""Untamed"" (1929), co-starring Robert"
"All singing, all dancing All singing, all dancing is an idiom meaning ""full of vitality"", or, more recently, ""full-featured"". It originated with advertisements for the 1929 musical film ""The Broadway Melody"", which proclaimed the film to be ""All talking all singing all dancing"". Recently, the idiom has come to be used to describe high tech gadgetry such as smartphones, indicating that the product is very advanced, or has an abundance of features. For example, from a 1995 article in ""The Daily Telegraph"": The phrase also appears in the 1996 novel ""Fight Club"", and the 1999 film based on it, in"